Oct 09, 2018
Magical start in Myanmar
On October 3rd, the “Municipal Accountability, Governance and Inclusive Communities” (MAGIC) project was launched in Yangon, Myanmar. The morning session covered the launching…
Oct 08, 2018
Cultural adaptation’- Working towards Social Cohesion
Uganda is faced with the daunting task of hosting refugees from South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Somalia, Eritrea among others. It is not clear how many tribal…
Oct 04, 2018
Listen to the radio
For all our Spanish listeners...please hear back the 15 minute interview of Caracol Radio with our VNG International Pereira DEALS expert, Felipe Vásquez, and the Secretary of…
Oct 01, 2018
Social Accountability in Action
Stories from Dawei and Myeik in Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar. Click here: Promotion of Participatory and Accountable Local Governance (PALGO) in Tanintharyi Region. Case studies,…
Sep 27, 2018
A sharp eye on the future, keeping all possibilities open!
Jordan, September 16th VNG International, together with the municipality of Amsterdam and the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation in Jordan (MOPIC) launches the…
Sep 25, 2018
Impact on conflict prevention
Two years after the project ‘From Fragile to Stable: Peacebuilding in Guatemala’, we received the good news that the municipality of Santo Domingo Xenacoj today publically and…
Sep 19, 2018
Inclusiveness at heart
A hike, a bike and good company. The Dutch kick-off of the RPM week raised some questions: “Why do you have a bike with you?” “Are we going to walk to the office?”. The local…
Sep 17, 2018
Mienskip in Myanmar
On a cloudy Monday morning in early September, a colourful group, consisting of four foreign delegations, roams the streets of Leeuwarden. They come from Colombia, Myanmar, Benin…
Sep 10, 2018
The dilemma of the Local Council I structures within the refugee hosting districts of Uganda
17 years after the last Local Council I elections were conducted, over 60,000 villages across Uganda went to the polls to elect their local council leaders on July 10th 2018. By…